Broadband Consumer Context

Carriers need to provide IP connectivity and then get out of the way.
Net neutrality is critical. If the carrier gets to decide what content is appropriate or control the content I receive, then we will have eliminated one of the most significant aspects of the Internet - the ability to connect with any resource, anywhere on the Internet. Broadband must deliver the fastest pipes to the most people, not deliver the people
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The National Broadban Plan should include plans to eliminate issues and concerns that deter citizens from accessing the Internet. Promote online safety, privacy, and network security. Strongly enforce laws against online criminals, spammers, promoters of frauds, and other illegal actors.

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We pay for our services, and a lot, yet most companies disallow you to do numerous things with the service you purchased! My big complaint with that is they do not allow the use of servers, at all, no matter how little traffic the server would get.

If we are paying for XMb/s, aren't we entitled to use it however we please?

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Since the early 2000 years the courts have upheld the ruling that the Internet is an information system, not a video system. Comcast and others are pouring Cable video over the internet, and will ultimately utilize the internet for all cable programming....for a subscription fee. Any broadband plan must recognize how "Yesterday" the Court's "Not Video" decision, and Comcast's interpretation of it is, and include video
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The United States is behind in the broadband market and has needed to step it up when it comes to speeds and prices. You can get 100Mbps fiber connections in Japan for the same price as what a 15Mbps connection costs here in the US. If the provider's equipment can handle more speeds, then they should be required to boost speeds without increasing their prices.
I think that the FCC should make it mandatory for ISPs
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Broadband.gov, what great idea for a site. BUT it doesn't go far enough to really take care of the Broadband issue. First the best step taken, was having speed tests by Ookla. They are becoming the new industry standard and since my ISP uses them, it makes it harder for them to dispute the results. But what needs to follow the test is a questionnaire to qualify the test results. Like, are they: as advertised; what you
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We should think of the internet(s) as something that people and communities DO as a means to other ends. We should not think of the internet as a "service" that we "buy."
I heard a brilliant quote:
"The question is not how do ISPs recover their costs -- the question is why we keep insisting on funding our infrastructure by charging for services instead of recognizing that the infrastructure is not a profit center.
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When we think of all the ways that a broadband-supported Internet can facilitate independent living, we must be sure to say that that content must be designed and developed at the outset so that users with hearing, vision, and other disabilities have the same access to and usability. That is, we can't continue a course where we keep finding videos on websites with audio tracks that haven't been captioned, or where blind
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Running the OOKLA and MLAB tests? Better run both, and run them multiple times. OOKLA gives download ratings to me which are repeatably 350-400% "faster" than MLAB, with the series run in a short timeframe. Appears they are not equal. And the results are being recorded centrally for some sort of analysis?

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RE: GN Docket No. 10-127
We need a strong FCC to ensure the implementation of the National Broadband Plan (NBP). The NBP includes strategies for solving the broadband crisis in rural and other underserved communities. With little or no authority over broadband, the FCC will be powerless to implement these strategies. One of these strategies is support for community broadband networks. Tell the FCC that rural and underserved
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